Original Names of Bands
Criteria: Here are the names various bands used before settling on the one they became famous with.
Original Names of Bands
Festfolk = Björn, Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid = ABBA
Vice Versa = ABC
The Toilets = Seventeen = Alarm Alarm = The Alarm
The Earwigs = The Spiders = The Nazz = Alice Cooper
Alice N' Chainz = Diamond Lie = Alice in Chains
The Allman Joys = The Hour Glass = The Allman Brothers Band
Avey Tare and Panda Bear = Avey Tare, Panda Bear and Geologist = Animal Collective
The Apples = The Apples in Stereo
Rocktopus = As Fast As
Retribution = Atreyu
Vice Versa = ABC
The Toilets = Seventeen = Alarm Alarm = The Alarm
The Earwigs = The Spiders = The Nazz = Alice Cooper
Alice N' Chainz = Diamond Lie = Alice in Chains
The Allman Joys = The Hour Glass = The Allman Brothers Band
Avey Tare and Panda Bear = Avey Tare, Panda Bear and Geologist = Animal Collective
The Apples = The Apples in Stereo
Rocktopus = As Fast As
Retribution = Atreyu
Civilian = Audioslave
Brave Belt = Bachman Turner = Bachman-Turner Overdrive
The Iveys = Badfinger
Horses = Band of Horses
Fleeing New York = Band of Skulls
The Hawks = The Levon Helm Sextet = Levon and the Hawks = The Canadian Squires = The Band
The Colours = The Supersonic Bangs = The Bangs = The Bangles
Bauhaus 1919 = Bauhaus
The Saxons = The Bay City Rollers
Carl and the Passions = The Pendletones = The Beach Boys
The Young Aborigines = Beastie Boys
The Quarrymen = Johnny and the Moondogs = Long John and the Beetles = The Silver Beetles = The Silver Beatles = The Beatles
Screwfish = Biffy Clyro
Pezz = Billy Talent
The Boys Next Door = The Birthday Party
Black Iron Skyline = Bis
Mr. Crowe's Garden = The Black Crowes
Satanstompingcaterpillars = Black Moth Super Rainbow
The Other Gang = Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
The Polka Tulk Blues Company = Polka Tulk = Earth = Black Sabbath
Duck Tape = Blink = Blink-182
Superheroes of BMX = Diet = Bloc Party
Angel and the Snakes = Blondie
Soft White Underbelly = Blue Oyster Cult
The Trenchcoats = The Blues Magoos
Seymour = Blur
Rubberneck = Bowling for Soup
The Vodka Family Winstons = Nine cm Worm Makes Own Food = Butthole Surfers
The Beefeaters = The Byrds
Perfect Confusion = Cage the Elephant
The Missing Links = The Chicago Transit Authority = Chicago
The Hilites = The Chi-Lites
The Weak Heartdrops = The Psychotic Negatives = The Clash
Pectoralz = Starfish = Coldplay
The Robins = The Coasters
Shabütie = Coheed and Cambria
Grundig = Cold
Starfish = Coldplay
Take 1 = Color Me Badd
Cranberries Saw Us = The Cranberries
Naked Toddler = Maddox Creed = Creed
The Golliwogs = Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Southern Death Cult = Death Cult = The Cult
Praise of Lemmings = Culture Club
The Obelisk = Malice = The Easy Cure = The Cure
Shaky Hands = Cut Off Your Hands
DVX = Cypress Hill
Redbelly = Dead Confederate
Leper Messiah = Deep Blue Something
Atomic Mass = Deaf Leopard = Def Leppard
Composition Of Sound = Depeche Mode
Dinosaur = Dinosaur Jr.
Café Racers = Dire Straits
One Fell Swoop = Dispatch
Pud = Doobie Brothers
The Psychedelic Rangers = The Doors
Sub Sub = Doves
Out of Arms = The Dresden Dolls
Teen King and the Emergencies = The Eagles
Pilot = The Pride = Snowfield = Editors
Onk = Vaseline = Elastica
Eleventeen = Eve 6
Dream = Extreme
Sharp Young Men = Faith No Man = Faith No More
Temper Temper = Rain Dancer = Reel = Real = Feeder
The Pride = Snowfield = Editors
Norman Bailer = The Faint
Rainbow Butt Monkeys = Finger Eleven
Late! = Foo Fighters
Foster & The People = Foster the People
The Four Lovers = The Four Seasons
The Four Aims = The Four Tops
First Day Back = Friendly Fires
Small the Joy = Fuel
January Thirst = Funeral for a Friend
Tornadoes = Golden Earring
Hutz and the Béla Bartóks = Gogol Bordello
The Sex Maggots = Goo Goo Dolls
Sweet Children = Green Day
The Warlocks = The Emergency Crew = Grateful Dead
Chad Allen and the Reflections = Chad Allen and the Expressions = Guess Who? = The Guess Who
Gus = Guster
GWAARGGGH!!! = GWAR
His Infernal Majesty = HIM
Sherman's Hermits = Herman's Hermits
The Sheratons = The Honeycombs
Clover = Huey Lewis and the News
The Dead Daughters = The Future = The Human League
Purgatory = Iced Earth
Flowers = Icehouse
The Farriss Brothers = INXS
Jack In Jill = Jack Off Jill
The Golden Gate Rhythm Section = Journey
Warsaw = Joy Division
Ruston Parva = Parva = Kaiser Chiefs
Saracuse = Kasabian
The Lotus Eaters = Cherry Keane = Keane
Rainbow = Wicked Lester = KISS
The Shooze = The Generators = Kix
Klaxons Not Centaurs = Klaxons
The Justified Ancients of Mumu/The JAMs = The KLF (although they often went back and forth between the two)
Ethereal = Lacuna Coil
Burn the Priest = Lamb of God
The New Yardbirds = Led Zeppelin
The Strand = The Libertines
Blyss = Lifehouse
Xero = Hybrid Theory = Linkin Park
Public Affection = Live
Cavil at Rest = Local Natives
One Percent = Leonard Skinner = Leonard Skinnerd = Lynyrd Skynyrd
The North London Invaders = The Invaders = Morris and the Minors = Madness
Betty Blue = Manic Street Preachers
Kara's Flowers = Maroon 5
Silmarillion = Marillion
The Toy Factory = The Marshall Tucker Band
The Locals = The Matches
The Management = MGMT
Best = Mclusky
Farm = Midnight Oil
The Bosstones = The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
M&B5 = Moody Blues
The Mothers = Mothers of Invention
Mottley Kru = Mötley Crüe
Fixed Penalty = Rocket Baby Dolls = Muse
Magnified Plaid = MxPx
NYNUK = New Kids on the Block
Milk = Neutral Milk Hotel
Pen Cap Chew = Ted Ed Fred = Nirvana
The Rain = Oasis
The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo = Oingo Boingo
The Mascots = The O'Jays
The Nu-Sonics = Orange Juice
The Baseball Boys = The Outfield
Mookie Blaylock = Pearl Jam
Robots in the Sky = Tetra Splendour = People in Planes
Blackwood Convention= Phish
Sigma 6 = The Meggadeaths = The Abdabs = The Architectural Abdabs = The Screaming Abdabs = The Tea Set = The Pink Floyd Sound = The Pink Floyd = Pink Floyd
Pixies in Panoply = Pixies
Ashtray Heart = Placebo
Pogo = Poco
Pogue Mahone = The Pogues
Strontium 90 = The Police
The Paramounts = Procol Harum
Arabacus = Arabacus Pulp = Pulp
Seafood Mama = Quarterflash
Smile = Queen
Gamma Ray = Queens of the Stone Age
Cross+Fire = The Mob = Queensrÿche
On A Friday = Radiohead
Mickey Ratt = Ratt
Tony Flow and the Miraculous Masters of Mayhem = Red Hot Chili Peppers
Twisted Kites = R.E.M.
Residents Unincorporated = The Residents
Ed Rooney = Rooney
Nameless = The Scorpions
Saron Gas = Seether
Tomorrow's Pain = Rumblefish = Crawlspace = Sevendust
The Drifters = The Shadows
Flake Music = The Shins
The Innocent Criminals = Silverchair
A Couple of Couples = Silversun Pickups
Johnny and the Self Abusers = Simple Minds
A Couple of Couples = Silversun Pickups
Skip Rope = Skid Row
The N'Betweens = Ambrose Slade = Slade
Pyg System = Meld = Slipknot
Shrug = Polarbear = Snow Patrol
The Muslims = The Soft Pack
Loud Fast Rules = Soul Asylum
The Makers = Spandau Ballet
Halfnelson = Sparks
The Automatics = The Coventry Automatics = The Special AKA = The Specials
Captain Trundlow's Sky Company = Skyco = Squeeze
The Leather Canary = Steely Dan
Tragic Love Company = Stereophonics
Highway Star = The Fast = Stiff Little Fingers
The Patrol = The Fireside Chaps = The Waterfront = The Stone Roses
Mighty Joe Young = Shirley Temple's Pussy = Stone Temple Pilots
67 North = Big Blue Monkey = Story of the Year
The Guildford Stranglers = The Stranglers
Thee Sixpence = Strawberry Alarm Clock
The Strawberry Hill Boys = The Strawbs
The Tradewinds = TW4 = Styx
Fighting Blindly = Sublime
Suave & Elegant = Suede
The Shrinky Dinks = Sugar Ray
Kaspir = Sum 41
Empty Set = Sunny Day Real Estate
Chunk = Superchunk
The Jennifers = Theodore Supergrass = Supergrass
The Primettes = The Supremes
Soil = System of a Down
The Artistics = The Talking Heads
The Boy Hairdressers = Teenage Fanclub
The Primes = The Distants = The Temptations
Hotlegs = 10cc
Still Life = Burn Victims = 10,000 Maniacs
Skull = Teddybears STHLM = Teddybears
City Kidd = Tesla
Legacy = Testament
El Grupo De Rock And Roll = They Might Be Giants
Groundswell = Three Days Grace
Running Red = Glass Onion = Travis
The Beans = The Tubes
The Crossfires = The Tyrtles = The Turtles
Hype = Feedback = U2
The Plebes = The Primitives = Uncle Tupelo
Mammoth = Genesis = Van Halen
The Electric Pigeons = The Pigeons = Vanilla Fudge
The Warlocks = The Falling Spikes = The Velvet Underground
Tigerlily = Ultravox! = Ultravox
The Detours = The High Numbers = The Who
The Helium Kids = Star Park = XTC
Yesterday and Today = Y&T
The Metropolitan Blues Quartet = The Yardbirds
Simple Pastoral Existence = Ponyclub = The Young Knives
The Moving Sidewalks = ZZ Top
Brave Belt = Bachman Turner = Bachman-Turner Overdrive
The Iveys = Badfinger
Horses = Band of Horses
Fleeing New York = Band of Skulls
The Hawks = The Levon Helm Sextet = Levon and the Hawks = The Canadian Squires = The Band
The Colours = The Supersonic Bangs = The Bangs = The Bangles
Bauhaus 1919 = Bauhaus
The Saxons = The Bay City Rollers
Carl and the Passions = The Pendletones = The Beach Boys
The Young Aborigines = Beastie Boys
The Quarrymen = Johnny and the Moondogs = Long John and the Beetles = The Silver Beetles = The Silver Beatles = The Beatles
Screwfish = Biffy Clyro
Pezz = Billy Talent
The Boys Next Door = The Birthday Party
Black Iron Skyline = Bis
Mr. Crowe's Garden = The Black Crowes
Satanstompingcaterpillars = Black Moth Super Rainbow
The Other Gang = Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
The Polka Tulk Blues Company = Polka Tulk = Earth = Black Sabbath
Duck Tape = Blink = Blink-182
Superheroes of BMX = Diet = Bloc Party
Angel and the Snakes = Blondie
Soft White Underbelly = Blue Oyster Cult
The Trenchcoats = The Blues Magoos
Seymour = Blur
Rubberneck = Bowling for Soup
The Vodka Family Winstons = Nine cm Worm Makes Own Food = Butthole Surfers
The Beefeaters = The Byrds
Perfect Confusion = Cage the Elephant
The Missing Links = The Chicago Transit Authority = Chicago
The Hilites = The Chi-Lites
The Weak Heartdrops = The Psychotic Negatives = The Clash
Pectoralz = Starfish = Coldplay
The Robins = The Coasters
Shabütie = Coheed and Cambria
Grundig = Cold
Starfish = Coldplay
Take 1 = Color Me Badd
Cranberries Saw Us = The Cranberries
Naked Toddler = Maddox Creed = Creed
The Golliwogs = Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Southern Death Cult = Death Cult = The Cult
Praise of Lemmings = Culture Club
The Obelisk = Malice = The Easy Cure = The Cure
Shaky Hands = Cut Off Your Hands
DVX = Cypress Hill
Redbelly = Dead Confederate
Leper Messiah = Deep Blue Something
Atomic Mass = Deaf Leopard = Def Leppard
Composition Of Sound = Depeche Mode
Dinosaur = Dinosaur Jr.
Café Racers = Dire Straits
One Fell Swoop = Dispatch
Pud = Doobie Brothers
The Psychedelic Rangers = The Doors
Sub Sub = Doves
Out of Arms = The Dresden Dolls
Teen King and the Emergencies = The Eagles
Pilot = The Pride = Snowfield = Editors
Onk = Vaseline = Elastica
Eleventeen = Eve 6
Dream = Extreme
Sharp Young Men = Faith No Man = Faith No More
Temper Temper = Rain Dancer = Reel = Real = Feeder
The Pride = Snowfield = Editors
Norman Bailer = The Faint
Rainbow Butt Monkeys = Finger Eleven
Late! = Foo Fighters
Foster & The People = Foster the People
The Four Lovers = The Four Seasons
The Four Aims = The Four Tops
First Day Back = Friendly Fires
Small the Joy = Fuel
January Thirst = Funeral for a Friend
Tornadoes = Golden Earring
Hutz and the Béla Bartóks = Gogol Bordello
The Sex Maggots = Goo Goo Dolls
Sweet Children = Green Day
The Warlocks = The Emergency Crew = Grateful Dead
Chad Allen and the Reflections = Chad Allen and the Expressions = Guess Who? = The Guess Who
Gus = Guster
GWAARGGGH!!! = GWAR
His Infernal Majesty = HIM
Sherman's Hermits = Herman's Hermits
The Sheratons = The Honeycombs
Clover = Huey Lewis and the News
The Dead Daughters = The Future = The Human League
Purgatory = Iced Earth
Flowers = Icehouse
The Farriss Brothers = INXS
Jack In Jill = Jack Off Jill
The Golden Gate Rhythm Section = Journey
Warsaw = Joy Division
Ruston Parva = Parva = Kaiser Chiefs
Saracuse = Kasabian
The Lotus Eaters = Cherry Keane = Keane
Rainbow = Wicked Lester = KISS
The Shooze = The Generators = Kix
Klaxons Not Centaurs = Klaxons
The Justified Ancients of Mumu/The JAMs = The KLF (although they often went back and forth between the two)
Ethereal = Lacuna Coil
Burn the Priest = Lamb of God
The New Yardbirds = Led Zeppelin
The Strand = The Libertines
Blyss = Lifehouse
Xero = Hybrid Theory = Linkin Park
Public Affection = Live
Cavil at Rest = Local Natives
One Percent = Leonard Skinner = Leonard Skinnerd = Lynyrd Skynyrd
The North London Invaders = The Invaders = Morris and the Minors = Madness
Betty Blue = Manic Street Preachers
Kara's Flowers = Maroon 5
Silmarillion = Marillion
The Toy Factory = The Marshall Tucker Band
The Locals = The Matches
The Management = MGMT
Best = Mclusky
Farm = Midnight Oil
The Bosstones = The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
M&B5 = Moody Blues
The Mothers = Mothers of Invention
Mottley Kru = Mötley Crüe
Fixed Penalty = Rocket Baby Dolls = Muse
Magnified Plaid = MxPx
NYNUK = New Kids on the Block
Milk = Neutral Milk Hotel
Pen Cap Chew = Ted Ed Fred = Nirvana
The Rain = Oasis
The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo = Oingo Boingo
The Mascots = The O'Jays
The Nu-Sonics = Orange Juice
The Baseball Boys = The Outfield
Mookie Blaylock = Pearl Jam
Robots in the Sky = Tetra Splendour = People in Planes
Blackwood Convention= Phish
Sigma 6 = The Meggadeaths = The Abdabs = The Architectural Abdabs = The Screaming Abdabs = The Tea Set = The Pink Floyd Sound = The Pink Floyd = Pink Floyd
Pixies in Panoply = Pixies
Ashtray Heart = Placebo
Pogo = Poco
Pogue Mahone = The Pogues
Strontium 90 = The Police
The Paramounts = Procol Harum
Arabacus = Arabacus Pulp = Pulp
Seafood Mama = Quarterflash
Smile = Queen
Gamma Ray = Queens of the Stone Age
Cross+Fire = The Mob = Queensrÿche
On A Friday = Radiohead
Mickey Ratt = Ratt
Tony Flow and the Miraculous Masters of Mayhem = Red Hot Chili Peppers
Twisted Kites = R.E.M.
Residents Unincorporated = The Residents
Ed Rooney = Rooney
Nameless = The Scorpions
Saron Gas = Seether
Tomorrow's Pain = Rumblefish = Crawlspace = Sevendust
The Drifters = The Shadows
Flake Music = The Shins
The Innocent Criminals = Silverchair
A Couple of Couples = Silversun Pickups
Johnny and the Self Abusers = Simple Minds
A Couple of Couples = Silversun Pickups
Skip Rope = Skid Row
The N'Betweens = Ambrose Slade = Slade
Pyg System = Meld = Slipknot
Shrug = Polarbear = Snow Patrol
The Muslims = The Soft Pack
Loud Fast Rules = Soul Asylum
The Makers = Spandau Ballet
Halfnelson = Sparks
The Automatics = The Coventry Automatics = The Special AKA = The Specials
Captain Trundlow's Sky Company = Skyco = Squeeze
The Leather Canary = Steely Dan
Tragic Love Company = Stereophonics
Highway Star = The Fast = Stiff Little Fingers
The Patrol = The Fireside Chaps = The Waterfront = The Stone Roses
Mighty Joe Young = Shirley Temple's Pussy = Stone Temple Pilots
67 North = Big Blue Monkey = Story of the Year
The Guildford Stranglers = The Stranglers
Thee Sixpence = Strawberry Alarm Clock
The Strawberry Hill Boys = The Strawbs
The Tradewinds = TW4 = Styx
Fighting Blindly = Sublime
Suave & Elegant = Suede
The Shrinky Dinks = Sugar Ray
Kaspir = Sum 41
Empty Set = Sunny Day Real Estate
Chunk = Superchunk
The Jennifers = Theodore Supergrass = Supergrass
The Primettes = The Supremes
Soil = System of a Down
The Artistics = The Talking Heads
The Boy Hairdressers = Teenage Fanclub
The Primes = The Distants = The Temptations
Hotlegs = 10cc
Still Life = Burn Victims = 10,000 Maniacs
Skull = Teddybears STHLM = Teddybears
City Kidd = Tesla
Legacy = Testament
El Grupo De Rock And Roll = They Might Be Giants
Groundswell = Three Days Grace
Running Red = Glass Onion = Travis
The Beans = The Tubes
The Crossfires = The Tyrtles = The Turtles
Hype = Feedback = U2
The Plebes = The Primitives = Uncle Tupelo
Mammoth = Genesis = Van Halen
The Electric Pigeons = The Pigeons = Vanilla Fudge
The Warlocks = The Falling Spikes = The Velvet Underground
Tigerlily = Ultravox! = Ultravox
The Detours = The High Numbers = The Who
The Helium Kids = Star Park = XTC
Yesterday and Today = Y&T
The Metropolitan Blues Quartet = The Yardbirds
Simple Pastoral Existence = Ponyclub = The Young Knives
The Moving Sidewalks = ZZ Top
Edited By: Ryan
Last Updated: 2011-09-10